The Jazz Season: Selected Poems by Edip Cansever, translated by George Messo Ted Hughes Award Winner with cover art by Basil

with cover art by Basil King

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The Jazz Season: Selected Poems by Edip Cansever, translated by George Messo Ted Hughes Award Winner with cover art by BasilEdip Cansever was born in Istanbul in 1928. He grew up in a country transitioning from the Ottoman Empire into a modern Turkish republic. As a student of law and sociology he was widely influenced by Western modernism and Eastern mysticism. To the outside world, Cansever's was an unremarkable life, spending most of it in Istanbul's Covered Bazaar where he worked as an antiques dealer. It's entirely fitting that a poet who came to define Turkish